we banned leaded fuels and lead-based paints because this isn't exactly rocket science:
It'd be really nice if - when the papers cover increased rates of particularly nasty health conditions in Iraq and point a finger at US DU munitions - they would not confuse the issue of depleted uranium's (low, per the "depleted") radioactivity and the well established and trivial fact that it is - like many heavy metals - cytotoxic and clastogenic, and getting it into your food chain or otherwise exposing the human organism to it isn't going to do a body any good.
Also, that story needs a big "AGAIN" tagged to the end of it's headlne.
:: posted by buermann @ 2009-12-05 16:17:51 CST |
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